In April 2011, in the midst of upheavals and revolutions in the Middle East and North Africa, Rwandans commemorate the seventeenth anniversary of the Rwandan genocide – a period of 100 days during which over a million Rwandans were slaughtered.
As the dust starts to settle on a devastated and traumatised Abidjan, attention has focused on Alassane Ouattara, now the effective, as well as elective, leader of the country.
All political leaders come to power owing something to someone.
The convening of the first BRIC summit in 2009, building improbably upon the musings of a Goldman Sacks investment banker, brought together the leadership of Russia, China, India and Brazil to discuss global concerns.
Many countries north of the Mediterranean are battling with significant problems.
South Africa’s Minister of Trade and Industry, Rob Davies, has emphasised South Africa’s commitment to a trade strategy that is development focussed and that benefits developing and least developed countries.
The global economic crisis has sparked the short-term divergence of economic performance between the West and emerging markets, thereby accelerating their convergence in the long-run, and is particularly evident in globalising Asia.
In April 2011, South Africa will take up its place among the world’s four major emerging powers when the BRICS grouping meets in Hainan, China.
The slide towards civil war in Côte d’Ivoire looks, on the face of it, like a fight between two men in business suits.
The South African Institute of International Affairs National Director, Elizabeth Sidiropoulos, has collaborated with Chatham House in London to produce a new briefing paper entitled: ‘India and South Africa as Partners for Development in Africa?’
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